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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons.

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Untitled, Conductors, Tramways series, 1990 © Matt Nettheim

Back track

About Face article

Penelope Grist finds photographer Matt Nettheim re-visiting a formative and fulfilling career tram stop.

Mark McManus as Will by Mark Strizic

In and out of focus

Magazine article by Gael Newton, 2017

Gael Newton looks at Australian photography, film and the sixties through the novel lens of Mark Strizic.

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Carol Jerrems, 1973

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2015

Portrait of Anne Summers

Portrait of Anne Summers

Portrait of Anne Summers

Portrait of Anne Summers, 1974

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Purchased 2012

Portrait of Anne Summers

Portrait of Anne Summers

Portrait of Anne Summers

Portrait of Anne Summers, 1974

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Purchased 2012

Portrait of Anne Summers

Portrait of Anne Summers

Portrait of Anne Summers

Portrait of Anne Summers, 1974

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Purchased 2012

Portrait of Anne Summers

Portrait of Anne Summers

Portrait of Anne Summers

Portrait of Anne Summers, 1974

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Purchased 2012

Portrait of Anne Summers

Portrait of Anne Summers

Portrait of Anne Summers

Portrait of Anne Summers, 1974

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Purchased 2012

Portrait of Anne Summers

Portrait of Anne Summers

Portrait of Anne Summers

Portrait of Anne Summers, 1974

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Purchased 2012

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Carol Jerrems, Paddington, 1976 (printed 2003)

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010

The Last Picture Show (Lewis Morley and Henry Talbot)

Reveries

Photography and mortality

Previous exhibition, 2007

Featuring works by Australian and New Zealand photographers from the late 1970s up to the present day Reveries focuses on images made in the presence of or consciousness of death.

[Self-portrait], 1996

Reveries

Magazine article by Helen Ennis, 2007

The exhibition Reveries: Photography and mortality is a powerful display which brings together images that depict the last phase of people's lives.

Rosaleen Norton, Witch of Kings Cross

Rennie Ellis

Previous exhibition, 2006

Rennie Ellis: Aussies All is a celebration of the life and work of the late Australian photographer Rennie Ellis.

Kinky Night. Impressions Club, 1987

Aussies all

Magazine article by Simon Elliott, 2006

The exhibition Aussies all features the ecclectic portrait photography of Rennie Ellis which captures Australian life during the 70s and 80s.

Damien Parer

Mirror With A Memory

Photographic Portraiture in Australia

Previous exhibition, 2000

This is the first major exhibition to examine photographic portraiture in Australia, from its beginnings in the early 1840s to the present day

Athol Shmith

Athol Shmith

Athol Shmith

Athol Shmith, 1985

Michel Lawrence

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999

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